sequence block II (CSB II) that stops RNA transcription, producing prematurely terminated
transcripts to prime mitochondrial DNA replication. Recently, we reported a general
phenomenon that DNA: RNA hybrid G-quadruplexes (HQs) readily form during transcription
when the non-template DNA strand is guanine-rich and such HQs in turn regulate
transcription. In this work, we show that transcription of mitochondrial DNA leads to the …